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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 20, 1968

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paige 6 the stars and stripes France pressure on i Paris a some Amer ican deserters and draft resist ers in Franco Are complaining that the de Gaulle government is cracking Down on them and their anti Vietnam War activities. They say that since March 31,when president Johnson announced a Lin station of the bomb ing of North Vietnam French police who constantly shadows have been less than Friendly. One of the draft registers who rave his name As Warren Ilam Erman. Formerly of Baltimore said that the authorities seek any pretext to harass the deserters or resisters or even to expel them. He said that he Ison an expulsion list. A spokesman for the deserters and resisters estimated there Are about 45 deserters and 25resisters in France now and indicated that the numbers Are dropping because of the changed attitude of the French govern ment. De Gaulle let us in Here apparently to permit us to work against the War and now he has changed his mind one of them complained. Neutral efforts the change in attitude appeared to relate to president Charles de Gaulle s obvious efforts to remain publicly Neutral since the United states and North Vietnam agreed to take the conflict to the peace table in Paris. Johnson s March 31 de escalation order was the first Concrete step in this direction. De Gaulle called the move an act of Rea son and political  de Gaulle s position has Lent been that the United states had no business in Vietnam an should get out. Lie has been the most hostile critic of the unite states among America s traditional allies. But since the move toward peace talks i Paris he has stopped his Public criticism and orders have gone Down to lesser officials apparently including the police to be have likewise. The deserters and resisters said they Are allowed to remain in France under 15-Day Resi Dence permits which Are generally automatically renewed. But recently one of them said the renewals come Only after hours of questioning. They tap our phones and follow us around and warn us against Mak ing any political  s sea lab e 3rd pm san Diego Calif. A the world s most ambitious undersea living Experiment designed to help Man conquer the vast Continental shelves begins this fall off san Clement Eisland. Forty aquanauts divided int five teams will descend 620 feet to their sea lab Iii Home beginning in mid october. Each team will stay below for 12 Day sat a depth nearly twice that of shelf Iii Experiment in 1965. Sea lab Iii is the third phase othe Navy s Man in the sea pro Gram and is designed to place Man to live in this new land of tremendous wealth Sai capt. Walter Mazanne com Munder of the program Headquarters Here. The first Seulah Experiment in1964 allowed four men to live 1 Days at h depth of 193 feet of Bermuda. Sea lab ii lasted 45 France s record 323-foot con i Days in 196f off nearby la Jolla sea lab living the latest in the Navy series of sea lab experiments will look like this artist s october. Drawing. Tests will begin in my Navy photo assess a Sente voters data Sheet presidential primary and primary election general election nov. 5 Wikke n Orch Dakota Nevada Iowa when sept. 3 voted ballot must reach election officials no later than1 week after Day of election. Sept. I voted ballot must reach election officials before the polls lose on elec Tion Day. Sept. 3voted ballot must reach election officials before Date of election. Who registration required fori Cemen. N o serv Regist ration required for service men. Apply by sending Al Ca. All persons Send Federal Post card application Spca to county auditor or Cit clerk. Why to nominate . Senator . 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Aim of the Competition is to Foster a  Standard of Small arms training besides promoting Friendly relations among conto armed forces. The rules Are designed so tha Nishan is not a match Between crack marksmen. Teams of 24are selected from one combatant unit of about 1,000 men from each competing country. The teams Are Nade up of two officers a maximum of seven enlisted men with More than three years service and a minimum of 15 enlisted men witless than three years service. Navy Captain honoured Washington is Navy capt. Pickett Lumpkin who is to become the director of Public affairs for Yucom later this month was awarded the legion of Merit wednesday by under Secretary of the Navy Charles f. Laird for his work Here As Dep Uty chief of Navy information. Lumpkin will replace Navy  j. Kill m the Stuttgart j . With this and a b Caj Navy quarters where live for 30 Day Continental Shel average depth i use lab Iii habitat for future p1 experiments in other data from the pro a will be helpful in a  plan to construct manent Ocean of r base sing up to  ii a. Key to the sea lab Experiment is saturation diving bringing the pressure inside the cylindrical habitat equal to hat of surrounding area. The Navy la an  with Saiu Imison diving a the discovery that the length decompression tune Rem constant for divers after they been under water 24 hours. 4 Days in chamber aquanaut. Spend four Days a decompression chamber Ali their lengthy underwater stays a the same period required or Aone Day dive to the Smie depth. This technique recently enabled Navy divers to spend minutes at a Mimi lated depth 1,025 feet in a diving tank. Ali Call for s e 1 e c t e d Seala aquanauts to make excursion dives to the son foot level. In the sea lab project a pre Surill ele Ator capsule ran ports Quai wants betwee habitat and the support Vess decompression chamber on surface. Gradual decompression. Is necessary to present the bends. A painful and sometimes la affliction Romilus from bubbles in a or. Or s tissue blood. Sea lab Iii. Which my Cost ill excess of $10 million compared to its $1.8  predecessor will try to in Ike submarine More comfortable. The a habitat has been modified the third dive. There Are new rooms a by 12 feet attach to each end of the 2-by-57-l Cylinder. They Are used Asad Ivl ing station Complete with he showers and an observation storage room. These modifications Anda Shif Vard labor shortage because the Vietnam priorities Riela Yei the Experiment had been Scheldi year. A chief complaint of sea lab i divers was the cold which Tivey of More than an hour Ater a peeled to be As cold a degrees for i a sea lab 111 tie i Ali Lical Cordt a 111"i heir  in Nich ordinal la led to begin water worked divers ill Inin ipod tlik1 vhf an him Liln i lid icon. One own.  chosen to lest a Nuu powered outfit. The ,cloying a Phitoniinn-2,18 fuel cml Klucens 4l 0 Watts to la a circulating in lubes Woven diver s underwear. One of Man s Hest  friends a hot Deliose ailed Tufi i i of keep the Kin 1 As lie did " so worked As a me he habitat " Esse Leli Eini lab h. In Seala icly from Alionna m ill. I Iii  
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